Crowley's new reputation with conservatives

10/17/12 1:39 PM EDT

Dylan, the Romney campaign can’t say this, but what Crowley did was an outrage. She injected herself into the debate and protected O from the point that the administration attempted to portray the attack as due to the videotape, as opposed to an intelligence lapse. Romney’s clearly at fault for letting Crowley get away with it (just say “excuse me Candy, but the administration sent its UN ambassador out after the rose garden speech to attribute the attack to the videotape, those are the facts…”), but we already have a large swath of people who have no confidence in the media to be fair, and what Crowley did will exacerbate that belief to the nth degree. Crowley seemed to recognized she [screwed] up afterwards, but she reinforced the view that the media is simply an auxiliary branch of the O administration when she pulled O’s coals out of the fire on Libya. When the crowd is cheering the moderator and not the candidate, something has gone badly awry. Again, Romney is ultimately at fault for letting it happen, he needed to correct the record.

That's representative of what I've been hearing from a number of conservatives.